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Show Radek Admits Treason Guilt In Diatribe Against Trotzky MOSCOW,, Jan. 29 (AP) Krl Radek, once Russia' foremost newspaper commentator and now on trial for his life with 16 other confessed coconspirators, defiantly predicted todav "we shall pay for our crimes with our heads." In varying; moments of anger and abjection, Radek admitted treason-b!e treason-b!e aril against In soviet foV-ernment foV-ernment of Joseph Stalin, butl "I cannot even say Trotsky misled mis-led me except to say that I warned Trotsky In 193 to a void-foreign complications. "Everything he said about the restoration of capitalism was true." Piatikoff, former aasistant commissar com-missar for heavy Industry, waa a broken, frail old man aa he stood to throw himself on the mercy of the court. "I agree to everything the prosecutor prose-cutor said except his statement I am still a Trotskyist," Piatikoff said slowly, aupplicatlngly, amid long pauses to control his emotions. emo-tions. "I do not expert clemency. My sole reason for talking is to aid the government clear up this filthy mess. "Needless to say, no pressure waa used . . to force me to tell everything." every-thing." Moat of the other prisoner eat huddled in the box. heads downcast down-cast and aome openly in tears. "While we are here being judged for the Crimea, he for whom we did them, he at whose orders we acted, naturally finds it expedient to deny everything and leave u to our fate," Piatikoff cried. "Oh, I know blm well! Too well to doubt it!" rrrotzky, from potmcafmsytum In Mexico City, has denied any connection con-nection with the asserted conspiracy.) conspi-racy.) The decision was expected 12 to IS hours later. classes his crime as "political, nothing noth-ing else." "I admit the treason," he shouted. shout-ed. T do not defend myself. There are no extenuating circumstances." His "final words," directed to judges of the military collegium of the supreme conrt before they were to retire to consider a verdict, contrasted con-trasted sharply with the dignified pleas for mercy from another defendant, de-fendant, Gregory Sokolnikoff, former for-mer ambassador to Great Britain, "The confessions, the Indictment and the evidence have buried us," Sokolnikoff declared. "However, I beg the court's mercy." Radek turned the fire of his sarcasm sar-casm directly on Prosecutor Andrey Viahinsky, who yesterday called the defendants "bandits" and "wreckers" of soviet enterprises. Speaking clearly in an attentive courtroom which 'yesterday heard Vlshlnsky's ringing demands for the death penalty, Radek sounded a warning to "all Trotzkylsts here, in Spain, in France, everywhere In the world'rc rM,Um.e" he declaimed. "The simple truth la that Trotxky-ists Trotxky-ists are incendiariea of war." Unlike Gregory Piatikoff, who renounced hia association with Leon Trotzky, Radek made no effort to ahift the blame. |